US National Guard News

The Department of Defense led a training exercise on June 19, 2013 bringing many groups together to train them to react to a dirty-bomb attack situation.

Carlie Jerrell Grunloh of Bradford and Cody Lee Canfield of Tremont are announcing their engagement and approaching marriage.

An active-duty member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard is suing Target after he was allegedly fired for not showing up to work due to mandatory military training.

The problem traces back to 2011, when lawmakers approved a plan for across-the-board budget cuts that would kick in if a special panel couldn't reach compromises during a debt limit showdown.

It was early 2004, and several hundred members of the Shreveport-based 1/156th Armor Battalion were preparing to go to war.

Members of the 129th Rescue Wing from the California Air National Guard earn day-to-day credits toward early retirement for up to 90 days deployed within a fiscal year.

A convicted sex offender from Washington State has admitted in federal court to impersonating a soldier from North Carolina while hiding out in Vermont.

A 60-year-old fire station in Mount Washington is getting a tune-up this week from a team of Maryland National Guard engineers as part of a new civic partnership aimed at benefiting the community while providing on-the-job training for deploying guardsmen.

Yearly defense authorization bills in the House and Senate also would keep the Starbase education program under the Pentagon's jurisdiction.

A sergeant in the Arizona National Guard who served in Iraq has been sentenced to three years in a Massachusetts prison after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme to move $1 million worth of cocaine from Mexico to Canada.Gerardo Flores of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced Monday in Salem Superior Court on drug charges.The 29-year-old Flores was one ... (more)

Members of several units of the 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, Iowa Army National Guard, stand during a homecoming ceremony at the Iowa Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility #3 in Davenport, on Wednesday, 23, 2011.

If you are a New Jersey veteran returning home from deployment and you're looking to find information on the many services available to help you in your transition back to civilian life, you have technology on your side.

An Air Force honor guard team from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., participates in a burial ceremony.

The Black Forest fire is keeping at least 150 Colorado National Guard members busy, including those fathers who were away from home yesterday on the day set aside to honor them.

About 700 people, including fathers of all ages, enjoyed an afternoon of rousing and uplifting band music, beginning with hand-over-heart versions of national anthems "O Canada" and "The Star-Spangled Banner," and ending with service songs for branches of the military in the U.S. and Canada.

Col. Nathan Jorgensen will be the featured military career speaker at 6 pm on June 20 at the meeting of the Civil Air Patrol Highlanders Cadet Squadron.

JUNE 16: Chris Butterfield, of the Army National Guard 1157 fire unit, hugs his wife, Julie, as he and other crews return to the incident command post during a shift change at Pine Creek High School as shifts change.

Sunday Night: Isolated showers and thunderstorms possible as the evening progresses.

National furloughs will be affecting hundreds of Wisconsin National Guard members this summer.

Starting July 1, the museum will open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday and the third Thursday of the months through September.